Sector Profiling & Workforce Development Resource Project

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The aim of this project is to gather, consolidate and make available information about South Australian health and community services industries, and their workforce development-related issues and activities: to provide ready access to information and resources that are currently highly dispersed.

This information will be used to populate a website that maps the sector’s organizational and workforce structures, and primary workforce development issues and activities. [It is expected that the other 8 Industry Skills Boards will at some point compile similar templates, facilitating cross-industry comparison, analysis and coordination.]

The website is intended to be of use to:

• Anyone engaging in workforce development projects and activities: providing information for funding applications, and a good source of information about related activity and ‘good practice’.
• Community Service and Health organizations: providing collated information about the sector/sub-sectors (that may be used in planning, funding applications, and so on) and workforce development research and tools to assist workforce planning processes.
• Government: informing policy development.
• Training Organizations: assisting in determining training needs.
• Researchers: providing a base level of information about the sector and its workforce, and about previous research – to assist researchers, and stimulate new work.
• The Skills Board itself: enabling it to respond directly to current and arising workforce development priorities.

This project is funded by the SA Health & Community Services Skills Board.